Day of Pentecost
Year A
Acts 2:1-21 or Numbers 11:24-30 • Psalm 104:24-34, 35b 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 or Acts 2:1-21
John 20:19-23 or John 7:37-39
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
Acts 2:1
The Spirit as Wind, Pentecost
Codex EgbertiLate 10th century
Trier, Germany
And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:2
Pentecost
BontocMuseumBontoc,
Philippines
Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
Acts 2:3
Pentecost -- Early 16th century Choirstall, Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Acts 2:4
Pentecost
Our Lady of Pentecost Catholic
Church Quezon City, Philippines
Pentecost
William VrelantGetty Center
Los Angeles, CA
Happy Pentecost
Church of the Holy Spirit Singapore
Pentecost
St. Aloyius Somers Town London, England
Pentecost, (detail)
El GrecoPrado MuseumMadrid, Spain
Pentecost
Turkish, Late 14th centuryGetty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Pentecost -- JESUS MAFA, Cameroon
Pentecost -- First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, CA
Pentecost
Follower of Bernard van
OrleyNorth
Carolina Museum of
ArtRaleigh, NC
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Veni Sancti Spiritus
St. Aloysius Somers Town London, England
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